Plastic: Happy Pills That Kill?

After studies indicating that Prozac is linked to a higher risk of suicide in children started emerging last year, the controversy has just become even more heated in the past weeks as confidential documents come to the attention of the medical community and the media. The British Medical Journal received secret drug company documents suggesting a link between Prozac, suicide attempts and violence from an anonymous source and has now turned them over to the US FDA after publishing them not long ago. Documents dated as far back as 1988 suggest Eli Lilly, the company producing the drug, had evidence that in clinical trials Prozac could cause behavioural disturbances. Patients and relatives report that coming off the drug has decreased their suicidal tendencies.

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